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APPLICATION FILED APR. 7, i921.

9,978. Patented June 20, 1922.

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Application filed April 7,

To @ZZ whom z't may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD NInsEN, a citizen of the United States', residing at Iron Mountain, in the county of St. Francois and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in folding tables and its prime object is to provide a table of this type that in assembled position is spacious, stable and eficient and that when folded is compact and that can be stored or packed for shipping in minimum space. A further object is to provide a table of this type that is of simple construction and consequently cheap to manufacture.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application and in which- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved table in elevation, assembled.

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan View of the ta- Able folded, one of the drawers being shown extended in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the table folded.

Fig-4 is an inverted plan view of the leg and feet.

Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My table comprises the top formed of the sections 1, 2, one of which is provided with the channel bars 3 in which the rails f1 are slidably disposed that are carried by the other top section, this arrangement permitting relative adjustment of the top sections in a well known manner thus forming an extension table top. Extra leaves can be inserted between the top sections when in their extended position.

Pivotally secured to the under surface of the top sect-ions are the drawers 5 which may be swung outwardly, as shown in Fig. 2 in dotted lines, to receive table accessories and then swung back beneath the top. A block 6 secured to the channel bars 3 is perforated to receive a .screw-bolt 7 which extends through a perforated cap 8 which cap is secured to the said block 6. An oblong box 9 is provided with a threaded metal bearing 10 Specification of Lctterslatent.

Patented June 20,1922.

1921. serial No. 459,298.

in its base to receive the screw-bolt 7 whereby said box is releasably secured in inverted position to the under side of the table top. The sides of the box 9 are formed with the aligned elongated slots 11.

The leg 12 upon which the table top and connections are supported is formed in one end with a threaded bore to receive the screw-bolt 7 and it is formed also with the pin-sockets 12a to receive the pins 12b and with the elongated recesses 13 thus forming the rib 14 which is formed with the transverse perforation 15 to receive the screwbolt 7 when the same is withdrawn from the terminal socket of said leg. Feet 16 pivoted in the recessed portions of the leg 12 extend, in operative position, outwardly from the leg and rest upon the floor to steady the leg, said feet being notched adjacent their pivoted ends to receive the ring 17 that encircles the leg and is slidable thereover. When the table is in assembled position the threaded bore thereof receives the screw-bolt 7, the pins 12b extend through the box slots 11 into the leg sockets 12a, the feet 16 have their free ends disposed upon the floor or table-su porting surface and the ring 17 retains tile feet against play.

To fold the table the ring 17 is moved over the leg away from the feet until it is clear of the recesses 13, the feet are then moved upon their pivots until they lie wholly within said recesses and the ring then moved back about the recessed leg portions to encompass the feet' and retain them in folded or inoperative position. The leg is now unscrewed from the bolt 7 together with the box 9, the pins removed from the leg bores 12'al and the leg disposed within the box lengthwise of the same in such position that the screw-bolt will pass through the slots 11 and perforation 15. Pins 12b are now again placed in the box slots -11 and pin sockets 12a as shown in Fig. 2.

What is claimed is In a table, a top, a screw-bolt carried by said top, a longitudinally slotted box releasably carried bv said screw-bolt, a recessed and perforated leg, capable of disposal wholly within said box, formed with a terminal bore Vto receive said screw-bolt and provided with pin sockets, pins releasably connecting the slotted portions of said box and the pin sockets of said leg, notched folding feet pivn oted in the recessed portions of said leg, and a ring slidable over the recessed portions of said leg for engagement with the notched In testimony that I claim the foregoing as portions of said feet in the extended posimy own I have hereto aixed my Signature in tion of the latter and adapted to encompass the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. 10 said feet in their folded position, the bore in ED. NIES'EN.

said leg being adapted to receive the said Vitnesses:

sorew-bo1t when said leg is in inoperative pol ALBERT SIKES, sition and Wholly disposed Within said box. MELCHER CONRAD. 

